Gravitation And Cosmology - Proceedings Of The Pacific Conference

Quantum mechanics of Riemannian geometry; the statistical mechanics of horizons and black hole thermodynamics; the origin of black hole entropy in string theory; unified cosmology and dilatonic dark matter; fundamental cosmological parameters and large scale structures of the universe; an overview of the abstract boundary; a simple proof of global existence for a restricted class of relativistic dissipative fluids; can a new gravity theory supplant galatic dark matter?; consistent interacting spin-2 fields and nonlinear gravity; the moduli space of local homogeneous 3-geometries; dynamics of monopoles and space-time structure; classical dirac observables - the emergence of rest-frame particle and field theories; quantization of scalar field in the presence of imaginary frequency modes; ASTROD mission concept and measurement of the temporal variation in the gravitational constant. (Part contents).